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Genesis 23:3 (KJV)

“And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,”

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Genesis 23 — surrounding verses

1

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

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I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

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Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

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And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

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And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

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